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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36901" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36901" /> == | ||
<p> Revelation 1:8, "I am the [[Alpha]] Αlpha ( Α ) ( | <p> Revelation 1:8, "I am the [[Alpha]] '''''Αlpha''''' ( '''''Α''''' ) ( '''''Α''''' ) and the [[Omega]] '''''Οmega''''' ( '''''Ω''''' ) ( '''''Ω''''' )," the first and the last letters. Christ "the Beginning and the Ending" comprises all between. [[Genesis]] and Revelation meet in Him. The last presents man and God reconciled in paradise, as the first presented him innocent and in God's favor in paradise. I accomplish finally what I begin ( Philippians 1:6). Always the same. Before all the church's foes, Satan, the beast, and the false prophet; and about to be after they are no more as a power ( Hebrews 13:8). </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67954" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67954" /> == | ||
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== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70601" /> == | == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_70601" /> == | ||
<p> [[Omega]] (''O-Mç'Gah,'' or ''Ô'Me-Gah'' ). The last letter in the Greek alphabet. See Alpha. </p> | <p> [[Omega]] ( ''O-Mç'Gah,'' or ''Ô'Me-Gah'' ). The last letter in the Greek alphabet. See Alpha. </p> | ||
== Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_81220" /> == | == Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_81220" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_53611" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_53611" /> == | ||
<p> [many Ome'ga, but against the proper rule] ( | <p> [many Ome'ga, but against the proper rule] ( '''''Ω''''' ''.'' fully '''''Ω''''' '''''Μέγα''''' , i.e. the ''Great'' or long o, in distinction from. '''''῎Ομικρον''''' , the short [[O]] ) '','' the last letter of the Greek alphabet, as Alpha is the first. It is used metaphorically to denote the end of anythiing: "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending... the first and the last" ( Revelation 1:8; Revelation 1:11; comp. Revelation 21:6; Revelation 22:13). This may be compared with Isaiah 41:4; Isaiah 44:6, "I am the first and I am the last, and beside me there is no God." So Prudentius (Cathemer. hymn. 9:11) explains it: </p> <p> '''"Alpha et O cognominatur: ipse fons et clausula''' </p> <p> '''Omninum quse sunt, fuerunt, quneqne post futura sunt."''' </p> <p> (See Alpha). The symbol '''''את''''' , which contains the first and last letters of the [[Hebrew]] alphabet, is according to [[Buxtorf]] (Lex. Talm. p. 244), " '''''‘''''' among the Cabalists often put mystically for the beginning and end, like A and ? in the Apocalypse." Schoettgen (Hor. Hebr. 1:1086) quotes from [[Jalkut]] Rubeni (fol. 17, 4), "Adam transgressed the whole law from '''''א''''' to '''''ת''''' '','' " that is, from the beginning to the end. It is not necessary to inquire whether in the latter usage the meaning is so full as in the Revelation: that must be determined by separate considerations. As an illustration merely, the reference is valuable. Both [[Greeks]] and Hebrews employed the letters of the alphabet as numerals. It the early times of the [[Christian]] Church the letters '''''Α''''' and '''''Ω''''' were combined with the cross or with the monogram of Christ (Maitland, ''Church In The Catacombs,'' p. 166-8). (See [[Monogram]] Of Christ). </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_6780" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_6780" /> == | ||
